O come all ye shopping faithful
So we were warned to stay away from The Oracle. To The Oracle I went, cash-a-jingling and with a broad smile on my face. No one was going to take my shopping Saturday away from me.
Passing through the Riverside, there was much merriment around me. Kids were whizzing happily on a temporary ice rink installed by the river. I was toying with the idea of putting on a pair of skates myself but it seemed that grown ups weren’t allowed..and I can’t skate anyway.
Inside the shopping centre there was a flash Lexus parked on the ground floor. Maybe the carparks were full. Well, it’s that time of year, after all.
The only reminder of a perceived threat supposedly came in the form of a police helicopter, noisely circulating overhead. The loudest noise of the afternoon, however, came from the ringing cash tills. Well done, defiant consumers of Reading! African mango yan etkileri